Too bad there was not a camera on the main tank. Wonder what kind of footage it would have transmitted before it burned up on re-entry.
Space must have messed up the mics because only the last one had sound at splash down. I guess microphones were never meant for space. That was some
great footage.

Yep. This explanation is closest to the mark. It's the sound of a large hollow cylinder during re-entry.

Did you ever put a large conch shell up to your ear to "hear" the ocean? Same principal.

There's a wonderful sound toy put out by Edmund Scientific and others that is a simple
hollow tube with a long spring attached to one end. When you shake the tube or wiggle the long spring the tube emits all these loud eerie sounds
that, guess what: sounds almost identical to the noises coming from this video feed!

Sorry to pop anyone's balloon, but if you ask ANY engineer or astronaut my guess is you will get the same benign answer. Eerie, spooky sounds are
just that: sounds. Our feeble, often ignorant little human brains simply make a vain attempt to identify the sounds with something - anything - we
might be familiar with. In the absence of such familiarity, the brain then tries to "assign" an explanation to satisfy our curiosity (and perfectly
natural, expected, fear of the unknown).

Does not putting your ear to shell for the first time and "hearing the ocean" give you pause, make you wonder as a child (or adult) where the sound is
coming from, how it could be emanating from the shell, etc.? Of course it does -and so it does. All that means is that you are a curious, natural,
human being.

By the way - this is meant as NO criticism whatsoever, especially to the OP. I loved hearing the sounds too. Actually, once it is know what the
sound are, it is almost just as fascinating and captivating, imaging myself with my ear against this giant hollow tube falling through space back to
Earth!

So THANK YOU, OP! We love these clips! Keep them coming! If it wasn't for your insight and courtesy in taking the time to post - many of us perhaps
would never had the privilege of experiencing them for ourselves.

Originally posted by Rekrul
obviously that camera didn't just pop into space. what you see is the rockets and the transport shooting off as it drops parts of its loads. the
earth is warping because of the fish eyed lens the camera has equipped. i don't see any unnatural phenomenon if thats what you're asking.

I don't think anybody is claiming it to be something other-worldly or anything like that. Even the NASA site claims it is spooky and strange. It's
just cool and spooky. Good enough reason to be stoked about it.

it looks like a piece of the endevour that is falling back to earth. it sounds as if around the 16 minute mark the piece hits the far upper atmosphere
and the speed of the fall creates a moaning/groaning in the matter of the atmosphere. these noises are not heard in the vacuum of space because there
is no matter to create friction on the sides of the piece. you also notice that the rotation speeds up at about the same time, this is because the
matter of the atmosphere is grapping onto the non aerodynamic edges and sides causing the piece to spin seeming uncontrollably. this is also y you see
the use of the expelled gasses around 16-18 minutes. they are attempting to reduce spin using the thrusters. there is really nothing strange about
this video other that the lack of control that seems to be taking place. as an example, have you ever heard the moans/groans of a storm that is
quickly moving into the area or the wail of a tornadoes wind.

Did you ever put a large conch shell up to your ear to "hear" the ocean? Same principal.

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edit on 28-5-2011 by DarkSarcasm because: this is not the same principle, when you put a konch shell up to your ear you
are hearing the echo of the movement of blood and fluids throughout your body. these noises are created not by echo but by friction.

Originally posted by DarkSarcasm
it looks like a piece of the endevour that is falling back to earth. it sounds as if around the 16 minute mark the piece hits the far upper atmosphere
and the speed of the fall creates a moaning/groaning in the matter of the atmosphere. these noises are not heard in the vacuum of space because there
is no matter to create friction on the sides of the piece. you also notice that the rotation speeds up at about the same time, this is because the
matter of the atmosphere is grapping onto the non aerodynamic edges and sides causing the piece to spin seeming uncontrollably. this is also y you see
the use of the expelled gasses around 16-18 minutes. they are attempting to reduce spin using the thrusters. there is really nothing strange about
this video other that the lack of control that seems to be taking place. as an example, have you ever heard the moans/groans of a storm that is
quickly moving into the area or the wail of a tornadoes wind.

"these noises are not heard in the vacuum of space because there is no matter to create friction on the sides of the piece"
Also because there is no air to carry sound..

That was some of the best footage I've ever seen. It's amazing how quickly those boosters fall back to the earth once they are ejected from the
shuttle. There's some good samples to be had at the 16:30 mark, to bad they are in mono though; they kind of sound like something I could make using
an audio application called Reaktor 5.

Many of the sounds have already been used or duplicated, as well as the general feeling of the video in the movie "2001 a Space Odyssey" Makes you
think twice what Stanley Kubrick may have known, intuited or was given the special privlidge of seeing ???

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